Patrice Cormier, Canada's world junior team captain, was ejected from a minor league game yesterday after sending another player into convulsions with a nasty hit to the head. Let me emphasize the "convulsions" part before you click on the video.

Cormier, who plays in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, had just made a line change during overtime against the Quebec Ramparts, when he skated past defenseman Mikael Tam and clipped him in the head with a high elbow. Tam went down like a rock and was convulsing on the ice before being hurried off on a stretcher. He's in the hospital with some missing teeth and, oh yeah, "trauma to the skull and brain." Jeebus.